Top Official Resigns From Trump EPA With Scathing Letter

In her 40 years working in environmental protection, Elizabeth “Betsy” Southerland has confronted all manner of environmental threats.

Elizabeth “Betsy” Southerland. 

But even she has her limits. Faced with the stark new environmental policies ushered in by President Donald Trump and Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt, Southerland resigned from the agency Monday, where’d she’d been working as the director of science and technology in the Office of Water.  

Southerland explained her decision in a farewell letter published Tuesday by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a non-profit group for federal resource professionals.

Read the Huffington Post story by Ryan Grenoble - “Top Official Resigns From Trump EPA With Scathing Letter.”